Never come across this song before... Very bluesy.... great song

@lupcokotevski2907

8 ай бұрын

The original is by David Ackles, one of Elton John's favourite artists. Tumbleweed Connection is dedicated to Ackles. One of Bernie Taupin's favourite artists as well.

Still beautiful song in 2023☺

Timeless, I listen while memories that had been fading away slowly rise again and fill my heart with that bittersweet feeling of happy being there at the time it was released and sad that it is a part of my past...... it feels like all the years gone by in a blink of an eye.

@Efferpheasants

2 жыл бұрын

Said everything I was thinking.

@christopherjones11

Жыл бұрын

So that's what '68 feels like in '23👍😎 - great, maybe I'll suggest this number to a friends band tomorrow (or even to our own repertoire - LONG LIVE R&B)

@kkautographscollectibles8449

Жыл бұрын

Yes.....

@professorpopkiss

5 ай бұрын

Good words

Those British artists were like aliens who came from another world and were like nothing we'd ever heard before.

Best song.all the time.Such sad haunting lyrics..Julie is outsight.Amazin sixtues icon.Style.....

What dramatic vocal power....lyrics very interesting for sixties music. Great connection between Brian, the musicians and dynamic Julie D.

Epitome of cool ! Jools and The Trinity were years ahead of most bands around the late 60’s.

@jocksilver7

2 жыл бұрын

psychedelic soul and gear, and some sterling vocal majesty. I remember exactly from this time and i was 5. Full blown case of vocal charisma. And seduction.

They were a great pairing. I wish they had kept the band going for a while longer. Julie was such a unique singer.

It is a sad tune, but well produced with that strong psychedelic touch, which added to the quality of the music of that time. I remembered this song well, should have been a bigger hit, but at the time there were so many great songs around.

This has it all - great tune, dynamic vocal, Hammond B3, Mellotron MK II, and Fender Bass VI!

@wolfganghornung3493

2 жыл бұрын

Hihi

Wow, I thought I'd be the only one coming back to see "Jools" (the original) so many years after. A classic!

A fantastic song, great singer, great keyboarder - a duo that fascinated our generation....everywhere, I guess! From Berlin - to Paris - to NYC - to LA to Sydney and back to London...!

51 years old now and still sounds amazing. Possibly the best song Jools ever recorded.

@matkokovalov1637

5 жыл бұрын

I agree !

I love her voice together with Brian Auger hammond.

After all these years ......... still beutiful !!!

Still brilliantly fresh!

@silviaruhsen648

5 жыл бұрын

No

Three masterpieces in one : Julie, Brian and Cairo.

Great song given a phenomenal interpretation by Brian & Jools... it’s so atmospheric!

So wonderful, the song and woman

Still wonderful.

Still excellent! Love it!😍

Brilliant music.

Love this.

Was für eine tolle Zeit,meine Jugend❤

a brave recording....not commercial enough to be a big hit.....showcases the talent of driscoll and augur. remembered as a classic.

@AnthonyWilliams-li5mz

7 жыл бұрын

Willie Finn why see is golden

@williefinn4932

7 жыл бұрын

don`t understand.

@patricklemeur6360

6 жыл бұрын

JULIE BRIAND magnifique !!avec l'utilisation du mellotron !!orchestration différente surtout les cuivres !orgue HammondB3 !!soul !ok !ok!! fan !! salut

O M G. Always loved this track. What a team these guys ana Julie make. Killer track as most of their music was !!!! Gx

un monument cette chanson ! B. Auger aux clavier ! HAMMOND, MELLOTRON ! je suis surpris par les cuivres .....magnifique !!!

Great lady with a great song for more than half a century

My fav Jools song. Thanks.

It's great! Thanks a lot!! From BRAZIL!!!

Has always loved Her doing this song.And some more.Thank U. :)

Always dug Julie, she never got the recognition that her peers got from that era ( Grace, Janis, Lydia. etc. ) in my opinion. Very cool indeed....Aloha

Julie used to live near me and she performed with the Trinity at our local rock venue the Bexley Jazz Club at the Black Prince Hotel just outside London. I think her material was just a bit too "odd" to maintain her "Wheels On Fire" success, but this song really is one of her very best. The Hammond work by Brian Auger is a key part of the overall effect. Julie was called "The face of '68" and rightly so.

@billkazen4683

5 жыл бұрын

mod personified

Das waren die Songs der Hoffnung ... leider erfolglos ... aber immer hörenswert!

After all these years .... so good

i was in love with m/s driscoll 39 years ago

Thats music.

The female David Bowie IMHO..but of course she pre-dates Bowie by a mile..to Cairo

She's my fans also.where are u,julie..I really belonging tobe heard her song,especially.this song.road to cairo.good voice.she was.

Unforgetable ❤👍

So fine Music

She was really something...

@silviaruhsen648

6 жыл бұрын

Al sisi never saw, only want might

@miyukishijisha8540

6 жыл бұрын

Still is.

@christianbavan2083

5 жыл бұрын

YES 68 IWAS YOUNG

The song written and originally recorded by the brilliant David Ackles. Elton John and Bernie Taupin dedicated their Tumbleweed Connection LP to Ackles, him being one of their very favourite artists. Ackles music was far too complex to attract a large audience in the late 1960's/early 1970's. His 'American Gothic' LP has been described as the Sgt Pepper of folk, but it is much more musically sophisticated than that.

Time to cry

This is wonderful, hey

Grazie ♥️🎼🎤📸

FAB!

Ese organo de Brian Auger& The Trinithy.fabulosos

This Lady is great !

Great, great!!!!

So good

Hidden treasures. I was 11 Golden age ,60,70s

This song refers to the smaller town of Cairo, Illinois, USA -- not the bigger city of Cairo, Egypt. Local people of Illinois and Missouri pronounce it "Cayro," with a long A, not Cairo with a long I. Several years ago the US Army Corps of Engineers blew the levee on the MIssissippi River at Bird's Point with explosives to relieve massive river flooding that threatened the river town of Cairo.

@paullai7161

6 жыл бұрын

This song may or may not refer to Cairo, IL (where, you're right, it's pronounced "K-Ro"). Fact is, though, Jools sings it as "Cairo", just like David Ackles did. Did Ackles mean, Cairo, IL, did he not know how to say it as the locals do (HIS bad), did he intend a double-entendre... we're not certain. What's certain is that the suggestion Jools sang it wrong is misplaced.

@claxtonclawhammer9969

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Lai, thanks for your comment. In the lyrics, the song concerns a hitchhiker whose car broke down in "St. Joe" (St. Joseph, Missouri) and he is trying to get to Cairo, IL where he has some friends. Ackles for some reason pronounces the town with a long "I". Not sure why. Maybe he just thought it sounded better that way in the song from an artistic standpoint. He was from Rock Island, Illinois and so was something of a local himself and no doubt knew the local pronunciation. And Julie Driscoll follows his lead also, as you point out. But one would not expect a British lady to be familiar with pronunciations of some of the more obscure American towns. I was not trying to sound critical of Driscoll's singing. Both singers do a great job with the song in my opinion. The pronunciation of the town's name is a very minor point, and not worth quibbling over. The video seems way ahead of its time it its production values. Instead of the band sitting stationary and and singer performing in a conventional way, you have the band on some sort of revolving platform, and Ms. Driscoll walking in a straight line with a blank white background. Very unusual and inventive. So though it was apparently filmed in 1968, it looks more like later videos from the 1980's which used a lot of creative video work for the songs rather than just filming a performance. .

@paullai7161

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the detailed explanation, Claxton. What I meant by double-entendre is a possible reference to Egypt, slavery etc. I didn't mean to sound defensive or confrontational - if I did, I apologize. I hate it when folks have a hostile attitude or tone when they're on social media - so, I hope I wasn't an offender. As for the vid being ahead of its time... ABSOLUTELY! Would we expect anything less? Cheers...

@claxtonclawhammer9969

6 жыл бұрын

No offense taken. You bring up a good point. Cairo, Illinois was obviously named after the older city of Cairo, Egypt as was Memphis, Tennessee named after Memphis, Egypt. So I suppose there are slavery connections as well as other historical parallels between the two places. Both towns located on important rivers. I used to live several hours from Cairo, Illinois. Felt the explosion when they blew the levee. But when I first heard Julie Driscoll's version of the song, I actually thought it did refer to Cairo, Egypt. I was surprised to realize that the original version referred to the nearby town of Cairo, Illinois. I was actually a little disappointed, because Cairo, Egypt does sound more exotic and exciting than plain old Cairo, IL. Anyway the song does have universal appeal and can be enjoyed by many people in all kinds of places and situations. Great music is like that. Anyway, enjoyed conversing with you.

@christianbavan2083

6 жыл бұрын

and in france cairo hey i dont care the voice is important no?i was 18years now 68 but love rock and real soul music

Was this just yesterday when I was young

In my early 20s, just left college and about to start my first proper job and finding my feet Fabulous time to be young imo.

c'est magnifique!!

encore un titre magnifique ! B Auger aux claviers les cuivres dans cette version !vraiment bien .....

"Yella" brought me here.

True

Esplendida version,mejor que la original

toute ma jeunesse !!

Wow, talk about a stroll down memory lane! On to Gracie next, or maybe Melanie. ;)

encore un titre incontournable !!...MAGNIFIQUE !...

Yella is curious what this song is.

Al sisi - now, not forever

where is the good music today?

As father liked

Fun to think about the staging for that shoot!

GIve after taking - a simple

i dont need adéle my singer female beautifull and super voice! is julie! adéle i dont care!!!

Nathaniel

Where are those beautiful woman today?

First of all I go to Mukhbana in Jemen

Yella

Al sisi - a battlefield for women

Way out … killer

Gaz and oil to Indonesia and India

Al Sisi is a soldier

ALl is just a name

If Al Sisi can't see as a chance of himself, he would be another simple story in egypt

she had big hair then

Al sisi - from birth to death .militarian

Potemkin

terrible , les claviers ,de .B. AUGER ,font fureur ,et cette orchestration, que je ne connaissait pas , les cuivres....

She should have stayed with brian

Underbar sångersks bättre sång

Q

Not as good as David Ackle's original - and I speak as one who had a massive girl crush on Julie! ( the haircut and everything!)

This is not a sad song

Al Sisi a dictator by road

@cyrilkurta2030

5 жыл бұрын

VIVA AL SISI

At one time married to Brian Auger

@battling7826

4 жыл бұрын

No she wasn't, get your facts

Grande chanson mais mixage désastreux . L'orgue et l'orchestre couvrent trop la voix de la chanteuse . Défaut récurrent chez Auger .

One of my favorite songs ever. Julie and Brian were my heroes! But such a worthless video, nothing in sync with the singing .... embaresing !

Aïe, aïe, aïe. À trop vouloir être branché on ne dure que le temps d'une saison. Je la préférais quand elle était plus féminine. Ce look hyper-1968 lasse vite. Et sa pop est gâchée par ses tendances au jazz (la faute de goût absolue). Trop cérébral, ce morceau ne parle pas au corps. Elle peut être sûre qu'elle ne sera jamais reprise en karaoke.

Just glorious sounds ,,,, loved Julie Driscoll x. G. Way ahead of the scene at the time. Gx